From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-06-06T05:15:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange Webrick Error

On Jun 5, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Christian Kerth wrote:
> On some Systems i get a strange Error when accessing a webrick server:
>
> An established connection was aborted by the software in your host
> computer
>
> This happens on a Windows XP Sp2 System and a Vista System, but on a
> second XP SP2 system, i don't get this error.
>
> Any Ideas?

I've seen this error when attaching to an Apache web server via  
Net::HTTP.  I think that WinXP will terminate the connection from the  
local end (without your permission) when some internal timeout is hit.